About Me

Somehow, two years have passed. And Dallin will be flying back to the states on March 26th. It has been quite the adventure! I will encourage him to add his own summary when he gets back...(Living the good life in the Philippines, Quezon City North Mission. Entered the MTC in Provo on April 4, 2012. Flew to the Philippines on Sunday, May 13, 2012. What a great adventure! And what an honor to serve the good people of the Pines!)

Monday, June 17, 2013

06-04-13 No Carrots

Yes, I will be pleased with the man....or woman, that names
this quote for me. It came out of the blue as I was chopping carrots for a
wonderful meal. And I pleased myself by knowing where it came from. How
marvelous.

So, you will never believe this, but I did not keep a list
of things to email about. I am terribly sorry. There just wasn't a spare moment
to write such things. It was a good week, but it was tough too. Our very best
investigator was sister Renalyn. She had just married one of the members. But
he got himself kicked out of the house this week, so they moved about 8 hours
away to the province. Bummer! Hopefully, they will continue taking lessons
there, or they will come back. I don't know. Then our next most progressing
investigator decided not to be around for us to teach her this week and she
didn't come to church. Her friend that lives with her said, "ayaw
niya". Stick that in google translate. Bummer. We'll see what happens
there. And then there were a few things similar to those things which happened
throughout the week. So all in all, a little tough on the work side, although
we did have a lot of good things happen as well.

Another thing with the work this week is that there wasn't
tons of it! We had a lot of days where the work was a little on the low side.
We had zone conference this week. That was soooo good! Incredible. I love our
mission president. He's an incredible man with incredible insights. But I
forgot my notes, soo, guess I'll have to share all that another time. We also
had a wedding. Sweet. They are super poor and wanted to keep it small, so we
were the decoration crew! That was a lot of fun! Yesterday was our district
meeting and celebration and a baptism for the sister that got married. And we
also had a record amount of punts this week! But no worries there. It's just
one of those weeks. We are super excited for this week and all of the amazing
lessons waiting to be taught. The area here is loaded with awesome people just
waiting to hear the good word.

Study topics for the week. I'm looking in to Sanctification
and Retaining a Remission of Sins. Good things there. I recommend it.

Also. We are having some crazy changes happening with rules
and with the way things are run out here. The biggest one is that for transfer
day, we always have a big transfer meeting. Every zone rents a jeepney for
the day and picks up all the transferring folk and their comps. Everyone
goes to one chapel. They are told who their new comp is and where their area
is. They get with the new comp and then everyone hops on their prospective jeep
and heads to the area. They have run it that way forever. Now, transfer meeting
is done. No more. Instead, the zone leaders get the announcement and get in
contact with the other zone leaders to set up a meeting point for the new
missionaries. Everyone travels alone. It's a big change and we'll see how it
goes. It's been a little crazy so for. Being kabahays with the zone leaders
means we've gotten to be in on all that action. Yikes. We'll see how that goes.
Thankfully, I am staying here with Elder Sojor in Valenzuela. No worries
there.

I feel like there was a lot of things I was supposed to
mention this week, but I forget. Hehe, sorry. I'll try to do better next
week.

In the pics department. We attended a wedding for some
marvelous folks in which we sang a decently marvelous song. Then I also caught
pics of a marvelous household item battle that went down between the zone
leaders. Man, are they funny. We also have a chap that works for our bishop's
advertising business that we are about to start teaching. Grabbed a pic with
him. Cool guy. Also, yesterday's district meeting happened to be the last
district meeting before transfers, in which we will lose half the district and
also the birthday of one of the zone leaders. I thought donuts and chocolate
milk to celebrate would be appropriate. Everyone else seemed to think so
too!

But that is all for the week folks. Have a wonderful week!
Take care! Read your scriptures!!